BLOG 7
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March 29, 2006
Why have two divisions in any of the classifications? It is a numbers game from Class A Six-Man all the way to 5A. Some will say having a two tier playoff makes money for the U.I.L. You better believe it does! There are other legitimate reasons concerning numbers. In Class 5A, should a team that has 1985 students compete with a school that has over 4600? In six-man can a school that has 30 kids compete with a team that has 90? In some cases they can. The problem is more pronounced in six-man. A 5A school on the bottom end of the 5A enrollment numbers will be able to field enough players to play football. The quality of their quantity may not match a school with two or even three times the enrollment but they have enough athletes to field a team. A school with 30 kids may have difficulty in fielding even a six-man team. Every year there are six-man schools that start out the season with maybe 8 or 10 boys and wind up canceling their schedule because of injuries or yes, grades. It isn’t true in every case but there are some six man schools that have 30 or 35 or more that participate on the varsity football team. The result is you can have a very young team going against a very mature team and more times than not the mercy rule will be applied.
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